Join us this Friday for CSDE’s Winter 2022 Lightning Talks and Poster Session. Six graduate students from the Statistics, Health Systems & Population Health, Health Metrics Sciences, and Sociology Departments are eager to present their research discuss their work with you during poster presentations. The session will take place on Zoom. You are sure to learn something new from the these very interesting presentations, which will cover a wide range of key topics in population science. Our speakers this quarter are Nicholas Irons (Statistics), Ihsan Kahveci (Sociology), Maria Vignau Loria & Aasli Nur (joint presentation – Sociology), Zoe Pleasure (Health Systems & Population Health), Maitreyi Sahu (Health Metrics Sciences).

You can register for the Zoom seminar HERE.

CSDE Affiliates Ali Mokdad, Emmanuela Gakidou, and recent trainee alum Veda Patwardhan recently published a new public health study in The Lancet with a number of co-authors. The study reviews publicly available datasets with information on indicators related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake, health care services, economic and work-related concerns, education, and safety at home and in the community, focusing on gender differentials in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic globally.

CSDE Affiliates Amanda Fretts, Melissa Knox, and Jessica Jones-Smith along with a number of co-authors have recently published a new article in Nutrients, available in full HERE. The authors utilize pre- and post-tax survey data collected from residents in Seattle, WA — which implemented a sweetened beverage tax in 2018 — and from residents in an untaxed comparison area. Using income-stratified difference-in-difference linear probability models, the authors compare net changes in the perceived healthfulness of overall sweetened beverage consumption and of different types of sugary beverages over time and across income groups.

CSDE Affiliates Samuel Jenness and Steven Goodreau, along with their colleagues, have recently been awarded a new five-year R01 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The funded project, titled STI Response and Recommendations Under PrEP (STIRRUP), will combine big data streams, mathematical modeling and economic decision science to understand the optimal design of STI screening within ongoing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care. Jenness (CSDE training alum and external affiliate at Emory University) will serve as Principal Investigator, while Goodreau (CSDE affiliate, UW Anthropology) will serve as a co-Investigator and consortium PI on this new award. Congratulations!